clinker-built

[kling-ker-bilt]

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adjective

faced or surfaced with boards, plates, etc., each course of which overlaps the one below, lapstrake.

Also clincher-built. Shipbuilding. noting a hull whose shell is formed of planking (clinker planking) or plating (clinker plating) in which each strake overlaps the next one below and is overlapped by the next one above.